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A SERMON. FOR SUNDAY
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A DISCOURSE ENTITLED “CHRISTIANS
® OUTSIDE THE CHURCH”
i
The Rev. Robert MacDonald Expresses
the View That to Be a Believer in
Christ is Not Different Fron Being a
Believer in Man,
" BROOKLYN, N. Y.—“Christians outside
the Church” was the subject of the ser-
mon Sunday morning by the Rev. Robert
MacDonald, pastor of the Washington Ave-
nue Baptist Church. It was the first of a
series of five sermons. The text was from
John x: 16: “Other sheep I have which
are not of this fold.” Mr. MacDonald
said:
So important and. many sided a subject
as this must be looked at from more than
one view point. Numberless are the ques-
tions’ to be considered. Numberless the
opinions favorable and unfavorable, true
and false, to be confirmed in these ser-
mons or repudiated. Numberless the peo-
ple interested in so practical and personal
a question, some of whom love the church
better than life; others of whom hate the
churen more than any other institution
in existence; some who trace their loftiest
aspirations, their deepest motives, their
holiest desires back to her as a fond moth-
er who lives to nourish her children with
her own rich life; others who have never
received the least benefit therefrom, of
which they are conscious and boldly as-
sert that little benefit to humanity ever
emerged from her portals. Some go so far
as to make the church synonymous with
Christ’s kingdom, and maintain that to
be a member of the one is to be a member
of the other, and consequently yield to her
a fanatical reverence. Others swing clear
to the other extreme and consider the
<hurch nothing better than the product
of a jealous rivalry for pre-eminence over
other institutions of earth, else the ex-
pression in wood and stone of overwrought
sensibilities. Therefore, the monument of
a most irrational superstition. While an
innumerable many identify themselves
with the church because they believe it to
be a beneficent institution ordained of
God, without which the world would be
morally and spiritually impoverished, and
through which the spirit is working for
the redemption of humanity, in which di-
yide strength canbe had for the ills of
ife.
I desire that our starting point in these
Aiscussions should be in favor of religious
Soleration. As love is the centre of the
Christian system, so must it be the motive
in every church claiming to be a Christian
chruch. As Christ our Master was toler-
ant of and charitable toward those who
were not numbered among the twelve
disciples and forty apostles, so must we
as His followers L tolerant in thought,
word, act, to those not of our number, and
outside our communion. There is greater
need of toleration to-day than at any pre-
vious period of the world’s history. he
church of to-day is more advanced than
the church of yesterday. Its intelligence
is greater; its light clearer; its affinity
with the Holy Spirit more personal; its
hold upon the cross of Christ, that power
of redemptive love, sacrificing itself even
unto death, stronger. The church of the
twentieth century ought to be, and shame
upon us if it is not, more gpiritual than
the church of the thirteenth century, or
even than the church of the nineteenth
century. iw
But not only in view of our superior
spiritual enlightenment, also in view o
our peculiarly complex state of living
should we be tolerant. It is the age of
differentiation and of classification. Every
significant fact of life has been forced to
submit to division and ‘subdivision to an
amazing extent. Look, for instance, at
education. Trace it through the modern
university curriculum. Contrast it with
the most comprehensive collegiate institu-
tion of a century ago. You are over-
whelmed with the multitudinous depart-
ments, and subdepartments and branches
of instruction, and professional chairs. All
these necessary, you say, to educate the
youth. To adequately impart knowledge,
to meet the ever increasing intellectual de-
mand? Yes: The renaissance that called
Europe from its dark ages of intellectual
slumber has pot J spent its force. Meas-
ure the term medicine, or surgery with the
imposing stature of the general practi-
tioner of twenty years ago. The stature
is no longer imposing. The specialist of
a single bodily function is more imposing
now. And for the humad body the work
9 the one has been divided into the skill
©
the hundreds and each unit in the vast
aggregate is more authoritative than the
one. The term philosophy no longer rec-
ognizes the old vague divisions of moral
and intellectual. Each division has. been
differentiated, and each differentiation sug-
gests to the mind content and comprehen-
siveness, richer and more compact than
the original’ classification from which it
sprang. Metaphysics, theism, idealism,
empricism, economics, sociology, psychol-
ogy, biology, and many more are the terms
now familiar to our thought. - And how
vast the field of consciousness covered by
any one of these significant terms. Eco-
nomics, a very modern term for instance
postulates for us; the land question; the
tenement house problem, the theory of
wealth, industrial organization, all- social-
istic and communistic relation.
he same in jurisprudence, in commerce
and trade, in everything of worth. The
difference between the big department
store and the little trader illustrates the
idea. Yet how surprised w& are that we
should have wandered religiously far
afield from the primitive apostolic church,
with our highly differentiated credal and
ritual expressions, our numerous ecclesias-
tical orders, our multiplicity of organi-
zation. Bless you, it only shows we are
alive and growing and anxious to apply
the gospel of Jesus to all sorts and condi-
tions of men. The worldly minded claim
that denominationalism is distracting and
sigh for a Christian unity that will swal-
low up all religious divisions. But, believe
me, denominationalism makes more for
the glory of Christianity than for its
thame. The only shame about it all is
that denominationalism at times nurtures
a spirit of Phariseeism that sees no God
in any other division of the Christian fold
than its own. It has been.only a few
Years since the medical students of Har-
vard fellowshipped the aspirant for veter-
inary honors. The term “horse doctor”
was the term of salutation. The veterin-
ary student, as the student of dentistry,
was occupied with such inferior subject
matter. Yes, but necessary subject mat-
ter. So of the Angelican churches and the
non-conformists of England. The one is
poor stuff to the other, tolerated only at’
the point of taxation to support their
schools. Similar intolerance was felt to-
word the great Booth movement in Amer-
ica by all the churches, because that move-
manent ignored their cut and dried eccles-
stical methods and brought into requi-
tion the public square and the secular
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hall if by any means they might save some
the churches could not reach. The same
intolerance is now characterizing us to-
rd that growing, so called, Christian
ience movement. When will we see the
“powers for good” that are ordained of
God? When will we believe that any move-
ment, however erroneous in nineteen
points of test, if adapted in its twentieth
point unto the blessing of men, is worthy
of our tolerance, even our sympathetic re-
poin
gard.
Even religious bodies quarrel among
themselves in defining orthodo and de-
nominational respectability, tead of
praying together for the salvation of the
world. No wonder Christians outside the
bv on the other side of the
ians inside church
of their existenca. The
forget the purg
| which are not of this fold
thumbscrew, rack, fagot and stake are
losked back upon as relics Jof ‘a:barbari
age, but their spirit still lives.
a leading denominations have within
ten years either persecuted, else made it
very unpleasant for some intrepid thinker
who saw more clearly and spoke more
fearlessly than the rank and file.. The
Methodist Church in our leading New Eng-
land city is to-day exalting the spirit of
the Pharisees instead of the spirit of the
Wesleys in trying to excommunidate its
leading scholar, just as Presbyterianism a
few years ago in persecuting its chief
scholar went back dangerously near the
standard of 350 years ago, raised by its
illustrious ancestor, John Calvin; whe in
1553 burned Servetus at the stake in Gen-
eva for doubting the equality of the per-
sons of “the Trinity” and the validity of
infant baptism. Christ dealt more loving-
ly with heretics. To Thomas He unveiled
His side and loved him into the necessar
belief. Phariseeism, on the other hand,
crucified Christ and stoned Stephen to
eath. Loving as brethren those within
the church; tolerant as Christians toward
those without is the ideal that should rule.
ow refreshing to reflect upon such a
passage of Scripture as that which stands
at the head of this sermon. It is a plea
for religious toleration and sets before us
a standard of religious liberty it would be
well to live up to. Je are so inclined to
become narrowed in our views of truth;
we are so prone to live under the shelter
of some creed that the vistas of truth
stretching ahead of us everywhere become
narrowed and hidden, and before we are
aware of it the peculiar dogma we cherish
or the certain fact we advocate is magni-
fied into identification with the truth it-
self. There is at least danger here. Thus,
how needful te be often carried out into
the the Gospel opens up. Look
at the scene revealed here. Jesus is hav-
ing another of His oft-recurring talks with
the Pharisees; but, as of old, they do not
understand Him. e is a fanatic, or at
best, a stubborn partisan, who, while pro-
fessing to lead them into larger freedom,
seems only to break up their honored in-
stitutions. So this peculiar saying falls
from His lips. As He speaks how precious
the outlook. I'here He leads His follow-
ers through the old loved fields, out under
the blue sky, their life and His identified
bound together by a common fidelity of
truth. But even this freedom seems nar-
row in view of what is yet to come. These
are My sheep, He says, and for them I lay
down My life; but also other sheep I have
, and as we con-
template the words, the range of our vis-
ion is extended, the fields through which
they pass widen, the visible horizon that
hemmed us in lifts, the blue dome of the
heavens | expands until we see all truth
loving souls everywhere, known by many
a different name, coming in as the sheep
fold opens to receive them. And we turn
our steps homeward, resolving in future to
be more tolerant for the Master's sake.
A few weeks ago an attendant upon our
church, a lover of truth, a believer in
Christ, but who had never made an open
profession of religion, asked me what I
thought constituted a Christian, and if I
did not think it meant to be a church
member, and a Baptist Church member. It
was that earnest question that called forth
these sermons. What censtitutes a Chris-
tian? No progress can be made in our dis-
cussion until we settle that question. Is it
to be a communicant of any church? Is it
to subseribe to any creed? A hundred
times no! All trustworthy sources make it
to be a believer in Christ. What do
you mean by bglief in Christ? Well, what
do you mean when you tell a person you
believe in him, that you believe he is a
00d citizen, a faithful husband, a loving
ather? You may believe in him as all
that, yet not be willing to trust him with
a dollar out of your sight. or open your
home to him as a friend. You honor him
not most unless willing to trust him with
very secrets of your heart. A belief that
does not express itself in confidence does
not count for much. All else is éold; im-
personal opinion. You must not offer
Christ less than you would your friend. A
belief in the historié¢ Christ only never
saved a soul, any: more than a belief in
Caesar or Luther or Washington, even
though you believe Him as more than a
teacher sent from God, more than a pro-
het, even the very Saviour of the"world.
Just as friendship is more than an intellec-
tual opinion, even a possession of the life.
Just as love, the divine essential in all
true living, without much society, is a
self-centred, self-circumferenced conglom-
eration, and the home a den. denying its
own existence, is virtue of the heart in-
stead of a secretion of the brain; so relig-
nowhere in the life at all. i ;
To be. a believer in Christ then is no
different than to be a believer in man.
Tell him whom you. profess to call your
friend you believe in him. When you will
not confide in him, when in perplexity you
seek another’s counsel, and in sorrow an-
other’s sympathy, and you have insulted
faith, ‘and friendship has become in your
thand an empty name. If you believe in a
man trust hin as all men demand you
should. You say you love? Show it by
loving and manifesting the self-denial love
demands, else your profession is a sound-
ing brass, an empty name, a dastardly af-
fair, 4 :
Do you believe in Christ? Show it by
a loving trust. Otherwise, you believe only
intellectually, and that means you do
not want to have much to do with Him.
It means self first and alwavs. And if
perchance you start to follow Him from so
superficial a motive be not surprised if the
first time His demands conflict with your
plans you turn traitor and swear you
never knew the man. The test is, My
sheep hear My voice and I know them and
they follow Me. That is the test—to hear
His voice and follow Him.
Now, what is the purpose of a church,
and in how far does church membership
constitute a Christian? Church member-
ship constitutes a Christian just sc far as
a_Christian constitutes a church member.
No church, whatever its name and influ-
ence, has of itself power to make a man
a Christian, unless the Roman Church, and
that is only in its own estimation. We
fall into one or the other of two errors:
Either of thinking of Christianity as an ab-
straction, or as a fact identical with an or-
ganization of earth, when it is grander
than both. There is no Christianity apart
from the life of its founder. It is not to
be born in a Christian community. It is
not to be swayed by religious excitement.
It is not, under the uplift of fine music,
nor the tender sentiment of a keen sorrow
to catch some celestial glimpse of truth.
and conclude you are henceforth a ralig-
ious man. To be a Christian is nothing
other than Christ within you the hope of
glory.
Then there is the other mistake of mak-
ing the evisible church identical with the
reality. Indeed, symbols are important.
We can never tell how much satisfaction
the religious devotee receives from the pic-
ture of the Virgin or the image of the
Christ. The line between the symbol and
the spirit may be less attenuated than we
think. More symbols may lead to more
realities than we dream of. An object of
sense may, however, oftener hinder ac-
cess to the spirit than be a viaduet there-
to. Many a person joins a church for the
sake of being a church member rather than
to be a better Christian. Many a person
worships their church and minister rather
than the Christ the church represents and
the minister preaches. Being a good de-
nominationalist is not necessarily being a
good Christian, although if we are good
Christians we ought to be denomination-
alists, and better denominationalists than
we are. Denominations give form and con-
tent to Christianity which some souls
would never otherwise perceive. But on
the other hand, denomina alism should
have no content to boast of except what
the Gospel imparts. Don’t think that to
money uncounted, your good name, the.
ion has its abiding place in the heart, else
5
be a Mihai Press erian St, Daptist
is equal. fo being a Christian. It“may be
rr may i so. Tt depends whether
your denomination intensifies or material
izes Christianity. You may have the form
of :godliness, but your ¥efy devétion to the
form is a denial of the power thereof. 1
have -in mind a member of a former
chugch. . who would sooner give up
Christ than his immersion and com-
munion. His unspiritual life shows he
"has done that very thing. He has per-
mitted these two sacréd rites to steal atvay
his Lord, and he knows not where they
have laid him. Seriptural warrant for ec
clesiastical forms is good. But no eccles-
iastical form should take the place of the
pure heart, the Christ spirit. Christianity
is a Christ imparted divine state of life.
All within the charmed circle, whether of
my church or yours, or of neither mine nor
are my brothers because also of
“Other sheep I have not of this
Don’t forget that. Christ said it.
Therefore, it must be true. There shall
be one flock and one shepherd. Not one
fold, as it is translated. There may be
many flocks in one fold.
By and by boundary lines will fade
away. We think then they will all be
Baptists. The Congregationalist thinks
they will all be Congregationalists. And
the Methodist is sure they will all be
Methodists. Ah, brother, better still, they
will all be Christians. And as some saint
in glory ten thousand years asks, Who are
these? as they all come trooping home like
tired children after the toils,of the day are
over, so some John will answer: “These
are they who believed in the Lamb of
God which taketh away the ‘sins of the
world.” Who knows, Jesus Himself may
say, “These are they for whom I died.”
These? These? These are they who came
up through great tribulation and have
washed their robes and made them white
in the blood of the Lamb!
Gems of Thooght.
To cultivate kindness is a valuable part
of the business of life.—Johnson.
Great effort from great motives is the
best definition of a happy life. —Channing.
We can hardly learn humility and ten-
derness enough except by suffering. —
George Eliot.
Skeptics are generally ready to believe
anything, provided it is only sufficiently
improbable; it is at matters of fact that
such people stumble.—Von Knebel.
The best time to give up a had habit is
before you begin it, and the next best time
is when you have discovered that it is a
bad habit.—United Presbyterian.
No man can pass into eternity for he is
already in it. The dull brute globe moves
through its ether and, knows it not; even
so our souls are bathed in eternity, and
we’ ar€ never consciou$ of it.—F. W. Far-
rar.
The humblest man or woman can live
splendidly! That is the royal truth that
we need to believe, you and I who have no
mission,” no great sphere to move in.
The universe is not quite complete without
my work well done.—W. C. Gannett.
“What does it signify whether I go to
the bottom or not, so long as I didn’t
skulk ?—or, rather,” and here the old man
took off his hat and looked up, “so long as
the Great Captain has His way, and things
is done to His mind ?’—George Macdonald.
i you wish to know whether you are a
Christian inquire of yourself whether, in
and for the love of God, you seek to make
happy those about you by smiles and pleas-
ant sayings. Are you a comfortable per-
son to live with? Are you pleasant to
have about ?—Gail Hamilton.
: Seeds That Will Grow.
The soul of man is the great masterpiece
of the great Master DE Rirchio
Smith.
He is building on the sand who makes
the opinion of others the ground of his
conduct.—United Presbyterian. :
It is a noble sight to see an honest man
cleave his own heart in twain and fling
away the baser part of it.—Charles Reade.
The capacity of our sorrows belongs to
our grandeur, @andzthe loftiest of our race
are those .who have had the profoundest
sympathies, ‘because they have had the
profoundest sorrows.—Henry Giles. -
Life is what we are alive to. It is not
length, but breadth. To be alive only to
appetite, pleasure, pride, money making,
and not to goodness and kindness, purity
and lye, history, poetry, music, flowers,
but dead.~Malthie D. Babcock.
None but the fully occupied can appre-
ciate the delight of suspended, or, rather,
of varied labor. It is toil that creates holi-
days; there is no royal road—yes, that is
the royal road—to ‘them. Life cannot be
made up of recreations; they ‘must be gar-
den spots in well farmed lands.—Mrs. Gil-
bert Ann Taylor. ei
If. thou canst not continually recollect
self, '¥& do it Sometimes, at least once a
day, namely; in the morning or at night,
examine thyself what thou hast done—how
thou hast behaved thyself in word; deed
and thought, for in these perhaps thou has
oftentimes offended against God and thy
neighbor.—Thomas a Kempis.
mien ACEI
.. Development of Character.
Ve are left in this world, not so much
for what we may do here, for the things
we may make, as that we ourselves mav
grow into the beauty of God’s thought for
us. In. the midst of all our occupations
and struggles, all our doing of tasks, all
our longings and desires, all our expe-
riences of every kind, there is a work
going on in us which is quite as important
as anything we are doing with our mind
or with our hands.
In the school the boy has his tasks and
lessons. - According as he is diligent or in-
dolent is his progress in his studies. In
ten years, if he is failtful, he masters many
things and stands high in his class iif
he is indifferent and careless, he gets only
a smattering of knowledge, with so many
links missing that his education is of little
practical use to him. But meanwhile there
has been going on in him .another educa-
tion—a growth or development of charac-
ter. The mind grows by exercise, just as
the body does.
Then there is also a subjective moral im-
pression, produced by the way the task is
performed. If one is faithful and con-
scientious, truly doing his best, the en-
deavor leaves a mark of beauty in the life.
But if one is unfaithful,. indolent, false to
one’s self, there is left a wound, a trace of
marring and blemish, a weakening of the
life.—C. P. Miller.
A Happy Home.
Six things are requisite to create a happy
home: Integrity must be the architect and
tidiness the upholsterer. It must be
warmed by affection, lighted up with
cheerfulness, and industry must be the
ventilator, renewing the atmosphere and
bring in fresh salubrity day by day; while
over all as a protecting canopy and glory
nothing will suffice except the blessing of
God.—Hamilton.
Progre ss.
Many people who show a good deal of
Christian zest at the start so soon get tired
of being Christians. To have earnest views
of Christ and to be intensely interested in
them and controlled by them cannot, un-
fortunately, be taken as a certain sign of
the continuance of that interest. The fall
ing off, the cooling down of Christi
thusiasm is common experience.—Re
H. Parkhurst, Presbyterian, New
City.
Nothing to Fear.
The Bible has nothing to #ear from i
ligent, painstaking and reverent cr
Its integrity as the ir
has stood every test whicl
ism,
d of God
mate criti-
| H.
has applied to it a
f those who wot
stars, God and eternal hopes, is t6 be all’
THOUGHTLESS WORDS.
In the course of our lives there must
be many times when thoughtless
words are spoken by us whith wound
the hearts of others, and there are so
many little occasions when the word
of cheer is needed from us and we are
silent. There are lives of wearisome
monotony which a word of kindness
can relieve. There is suffering which
words of sympahty can make more en-
durable, and often even in the midst of
wealth and luxury there are those who
listen and long in vain for some ex-
pression of disinterested kindness.
Speak to those while they can hear
and be helped by you, for the day
may come when all our expressions of
love and appreciation may be un-
heard. Imagine yourself standing be-
side their last resting place. Think
of things you could have said to them
while they were yet living. Then go
and tell them now. }
PRETTY LIPS,
To be really pretty the lips should be
rather full, but without the least sus-
picion of thickness. The color, too,
should be of bright red, not: only for
appearance sake, but also as denot-
ing a, healthy body. Thin, colorless
lips betray poverty of the blood, while
very thin lips, however bright their
color, show an irritable, fretty dispo-
sition, says the Brooklyne*Times.
Many girls when reading pull and
pinch their lips.- This bad habit causes
the flesh to swell, and in a very
short time a pair of ugly, thick lips is
the result. Unfortunately this unbe-
coming. blemish is not easy to cure.
The practice of touching the lips must
first be abandoned and the lips gently
rubbed with cold cream two or three
times a day. The girl who uncon-
sciously plays with her lips will do
well to wear a pair of woolly gloves
when reading or studying. She should
also get those around her to correct
her directly they notice her hand
raised to her face,
Biting the lips is another habit
which also thickens them, besides de-
noting a bad temper. The best cure
for this is to keep a white bone pen-
holder in the mouth in moments of
leisure, and this will prevent the teeth
closing on the lips.
DUTIES OF A GUEST.
When being entertained always re-
member that your first duty is to your
hostess. A guest should not expect to
be provided with continual amuse-
ment or seem to depend wholly upon
the guidance of others; neither must
she seek to iniroduce innovations of
any kind, as they may. be displeasing
simply because they: run counter tol
plans already under. way. A guest|
must not make appointmens or ask
friends to call upon her util she has
first consulted her hostess and gained
her approval; this: courtesy should
never be neglected, for a hostess has a
perfect right to know who is coming
into her home and interpose a polite
objection without any one feeling of-
fended, if she sees fit to do so. Her
objectiofi” does not necessarily reflect
against your friends, but may be based
entirely - upon - personal convenience,
whicli she is not expected to explain.
If your friends call. be very particular
to introduce them to your hostess and
members of her family. An incon-
siderate guest, who takes advantage
of his or her position as guest to im
pose nameless little selfish .. and:
thoughtless acts, is, the greatest trial
with which a host has to contend,
hence it is not strange that some peo-
ple find the doors of their erstwhile
friends closed against them. Tact and
close observation will teach one the
happy medium and how to be a pleas-
ant instead of burdensome guest.—Ma-
rion Olcott Prentice, in Mirror and
Farmer.
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FRECKLES OF TWO KINDS.
Of all the facial blemishes freckles
are the most obstinate to cope with
and are the bete noir of the profession-
al beauty specialist as well as the
home practitioner. Usually they are
the remaining kinks of childhood and
will vanish with increasing. years.
During their existence eternal vig
lance in the matter of diet, proteec-
tion from wind and sun, with fre-
quent applications of a mild aeid
lotion will materially assist in keeping
them in subjection. The tiny brown
specks are caused by minute particles
of iron in the blood, which have worked
their way through the glands of the
skin and formed a deposit under the
surface; they may be divided into two
classes, constitutional or sun freckles.
The former are usually quite dark and
cannot be eradicated except by heroic
measures in the hands of a skilled der-
matologist; even then success does not
always result. The usual method of
removing these blemishes is to have
the delicate tissues of the epidermis re-
moved in layers, by the application of
a caustic lotion until the offending
spot is reached. This requires time
and patience and during the peeling
the skin is made very rough.
s disappear almost entirely
"0CesS
An excellent harmless lotion
ay be applied and which is
cious in
and sun.
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alum. Powerful bleaches are not ad-
visable in the hands of amateurs.
NERVOUSNESS OFTEN A HABIT.
Few things will more certainly ine
sure a future disastrous result upon
the character than a habit of yielding
to or cultivating to excess the expres-
sion of all the emotions. Tears for
rifling pains, or loud complaints about
small annoyances—physical, social,
what not—may give at first momen-
tary relief to the weeper or complainer,
but soon become a habit which weak-
ens the power of self-control and les-
sens the power of endurance in all
forms, says the Doston Herald.
It is not within the ability of every
woman to absolutely suppress all man-
ifestations of suffering, but it is surely
within the power of every one to make
up her mind—and to teach her chil-
dren—to endure the smaller necessary
woes of existence without an outcry,
and thus aid in the acquisition of con-
trol over more serious forms of trouble.
To yield and yield again to extrava-
gant emotion is weak-mindedness—
and weakens bodily endurance too.
Every one in this trouble-full world
will some day have need of all pos-
sible native and acquired courage
wherewith to face an enemy, whether
that enemy comes from within or with-
out. And such courage ought to be
cultivated early and always.
There can be no disaster, moral,
physical or financial, so great but that
courage, reason andthe power to use
one’s head coolly~svill help encounter
it, perhaps to. conquer, and at worst
to endure bravely. No matter whether
the suffering is of mind or body, the
one who can stand.it without wasting
her strength in making a noise has
the possibility; almost the certainty,
of being ablesto lessen it by distract-
ing her mind, by diverting ber atten-
tion, using all the means in her own
power to aid her in the struggle.
One most important smeans is phy-
sical quiet, perfect relaxation; not the
tense setting of every muscle which is
commonly and most mistakenly held
to be the true way.to fight against a
hurt.
Bodily relaxation is one step, and
often the most l'elpful one, toward se-
curing mental—that is, nervous—ease.
The reverse is also true, that bodily
tension increases mental strain. If,
for example, one finds herself tremu-
lous, or with shaking hands from ex-
citement or apprehension, the tremor
will be much more effectively over-
come by relaxing the affected muscles
or the whole body. than by stiffening
up and “bracing herself” against it,
and the correspending relief to the
nerves is far greater. .
This is the attitude to be sought
for; and the philosophy of it is plain
enough to any thinking person. If
there is one to whom it is not per-
fectly - clear, let ‘jer’ try: the. experi-
ment forsherself a few times, and she
will begin to realize the meaning. The
trick of it is not to be acquainted im
a day or a week, possibly not in a
month; but it can be learned and it
should 'be striven for at all times un-
til it is attained and fixed as a habit.
This is the habit to cultivate and not
the other—the habit of resisting and
defeating nervousness, not the habit
of being nervous. :
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A new fad is to have the furniture
of your den or boudoir upholstered
with portions of your and your friends’
old gowns. . aienteplaithis iE
A girl can get all kinds of exercise
at a gymnasium, but so she.can at
home. Running upstairs in a hurry is
nowadays called first-class exercise,
and running downstairs is almost as
good.
In order to in sirength, vigor,
e, celerity ad accuracy of move-
ment, a girl should take the greatest
possible variety of exercise. This is
the only way to develop the body sym-
metrically.
The highest salaried woman at the
Per Miss Annie Shirley,
whom Commissioner Ware has pro-
to a position which pays $1860
Only one other woman has re-
sion Bureau
moted
a year.
ge a salary.
ceived 8
I.ace yokes en applique usually run
down the sleeves.
Cream linen neckwear is gay with
embroidery a la Bulgare.
An emerald green paradise plume
decks a scoop hat of sable.
A Parma violet toque is ideal with a
costume of violet or purple.
Many of the simpler hats for
e trimmed with wreaths of puc
on,
are in eome
ense, and of lace, mu
ndersleeves
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At Baku, on the north side of the
Caspian Sea, an electric power sta-
tion has been erected for supplying
power to 2000 oil wells in that locality.
“Color photography,” said one of
America’s foremonst chemists recent-
ly. “is impossible until we find some
other sensitive salt than that of silver
or platinum.” How to blend the colors
in one is the secret, and “there's mil-
lions in it.”
To determine if acute insanity ,is
caused by a toxin in the blood a Ger-
man physician ras been experiment-
ing upon himself. He injected at in-
tervals serum, blood, and cerebros-
pinal fluid from a patient suffering
from acute dementia with hallucina-
tions, without the least effect,
A new surface-contact system of
electric traction as applied to railways
was put on trial recently in America
on a mile of experimental line on the
Pennsylvania Railroad. Report states
that a speed of eighty-five miles an
hour was attained, and that in other
respects the results were successful.
WAR RECORD OF A DOG
Belonged to General Botha and Followed
Irish Troops Through Boer War.
Unusual interest centred in a case
heard in the Dublin police court re-
cently, in which the leading figure was
a bulldog that formerly belonged to
General Philip Botha, and went
through a good portion of the South
African war. Ernest Warmingham,
canteen manager for the contractors,
was summoned for cruelty to the ani-
mal, which has been stationed for
some time past with the Royal Irish
Rifles at Richmond Barracks.
The bulldog, which now belongs to
Color Sergeant Edwards, Royal Irish
Rifles, was accommodated with a seat
in the witness box, from which point
he seemed to take a languid interest in
the proceedings. He was dressed in a
coat with green facings, and wore sev-
eral South African medals with clasps.
The animal's record is an eventful one,
During the Boer War le was cap
tured by the Second Royal Irish Rifles,
Mounted Infantry, from Commandant
Philip Botha’s farm in the Doornberg,
in September, 1900. From that time
until the end of the war he trekked
with the Rifles’ mounted force from
Griqualand in the west to Basutoland
in the east, and he: still bears the scar
of a wound received in action. Later
he was with General French's column
in Cape Colony. For his service the
bulldog now wears the Queen's South
African medal with three clasps, and
the King’s South African medal with
two clasps. Mr. Drury remarked.
when the case was called, that this was
the most distinguished dog in the coun-
try, as he had medals.—London Daily
Telegraph. . : :
Donald’s Retort to Lord Burton.
It-is said that Eerd.Burton’s. good-
natured heiress, Mrs. Baillie, of Doch-
four, likes sometimes to assume the
role -of the.eénfant terrible. of adolés-
cence. But it is not generally known
' that the great beer baron’s tenants at
Glenquoich also cultivate a .frankness
that respects not persons. Wherever
he may be Lord Burton has an irresist-
ible impulse to improve the face of na-
ture, and at Glenquoich, though it is
only a shooting box, a number of alter
ations have been carried out. In the
course of the work he found it neces-
sary to remove a little cottage and re-
build it with better sleeping accommo-
davon. The tenant was a very old
man, so in deference to his years Lord
Burton went to him personally to ex-
plain. In his kindiy-asvay he began,
“Well, Donald, I'm very sorry to have
to turn out such an old man as you—-"
when the old fellow cut him short in
the middle of the sentence and snapped
out: “Hech! sorra, did ye say? Sorra2
Na, you're na soira or ye wadna hae
dune it!"—London Onlooker. n or.
Told of the Duke of Devonshire. *
In illustration of the lavishness with
which Chatsworth House is endowed
with art treasures, and of the distrait
element which is supposed to be a feat-
ure of the Duke of Devonshire’s mind,
an amusing story went the round of
the French press at the time of the
last Paris exhibition. The duke, it was
said, was strolling through the loan
section of the English exhibits with a
friend, and stopped to look with ad-
miration at a porphyry table ¢f match-
less beauty. He examined it long with
the eye of a connoisseur, and at
exclaimed: “I wonder who is the owner
f such a beautiful specimen of work-
manship. I almost feel inclined to envy
him.” His companion, who had con-
sulted the catalogue, handed it to him
with a smile. It contained the infor=
mation that the table came from Chats.
worth House, and was lent by the
Duke of Devonshire.—London Chroni-
cle.
last
Wolseley and the Correspondent.
Lord Wolseley has always exhibited
a keen dislike of war corresonden:s.
On one occasion a well-known press-
in
an and a personal friend of the gen-
eral joined the headquarters and re-
ported himself at the
chief's tent to have his papers vis
commander-in-
ed
and get permission to go forward to
the fightin Greeting him with a
hearty the hand, Wolseley
looked the documents,
these sig
t; but if
1 you to 1
And witl
shed his frie
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